Archive for September, 2009

Vacancy for a Deputy Director

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

UKOLN has a vacancy for a Deputy Director. The closing date for applications is 29 October 2009.

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Vacancy for eFramework Web Manager

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

UKOLN has a vacancy for an eFramwork Web Manager. The closing date for applications is 14 October 2009.

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Vacancy for a Financial Administrator

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

UKOLN has a vacancy for a Financial Administrator.  The closing date for applications is 22 October 2009.

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Engineering Research Information Management (ERIM)

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

UKOLN is participating in a project to establish a system for managing Engineering research data. The Engineering Research Information Management (ERIM) Project is led by the Innovative design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC) at the University of Bath, and begins 1 October 2009 with funding from JISC. As well as establishing procedures for the long-term curation of the outputs of selected IdMRC projects, ERIM will explore the technical, contextual, social and legal barriers to re-using the data.

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5th International Digital Curation Conference (2009) Open for Registration

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Registration is now open for the 5th International Digital Curation Conference: “Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity” to be held 2-4 December 2009 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington, London. The Conference is being held by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)external link in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)external link and organised by UKOLN. Pre-Conference Workshops are also arranged. Full details and how to register are available.

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UKOLN Research Officer Wins Remote Worker Award 2009

Monday, September 14th, 2009

UKOLN staff were delighted to learn that their colleague Marieke Guy has won the Remote Worker 2009 award from the Remote Employment Web site in association with BT Business against serious competition for the prize.

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Making Repository Deposit Easier with SWORD

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Adrian Stevenson, UKOLN, will be giving a presentation and demonstration at the DSpace User Group Meetingexternal link on 15 October 2009, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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